Diana Sands
Acting
39 years oldThe Bronx, New York, USABiography
Diana Patricia Sands was an American actress, perhaps most known for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.
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Diana Patricia Sands
Movies (15)
Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
2018
4.0
Honeybaby, Honeybaby
as Laura Lewis
1974
6.7
Free to Be… You and Me
as Self (uncredited)
1974
6.2
Willie Dynamite
as Cora
1974
5.2
Georgia, Georgia
as Georgia Martin
1972
4.8
Doctors' Wives
as Helen Straughn
1971
5.8
The Landlord
as Francine "Fanny" Johnson
1970
6.6
Ensign Pulver
as Mila
1964
An Affair of the Skin
as Janice
1963
7.7
A Raisin in the Sun
as Beneatha Younger
1961
6.8
Odds Against Tomorrow
as Club Hostess (uncredited)
1959
7.6
A Face in the Crowd
as Homeless Woman (uncredited)
1957
6.3
Four Boys and a Gun
as (uncredited)
1957
4.0
Carib Gold
as Bar Girl
1956
5.8
Caribbean
as Native Woman (uncredited)
1952
